Portuguese West Coast tourism resorts: an unfinished landscape of territorial liabilities

The research focuses on Portuguese West Coast tourism resorts and addresses the problem of unfinished estates as territorial liabilities left by the Global Financial Crisis on residential tourism and tourism-driven urbanization. After a significant expansion during the golden age, resorts have suffered drastic consequences under the crisis, financial imbalance and stagnation of the real estate market. This situation brings additional problems to land management and adequate responses have not been provided yet. Focusing on the municipality of Óbidos, this paper aims to describe the territorial changes induced by the development of resorts, criss-crossing a morphological analysis with the understanding of the context of the Global Financial Crisis and the assessment of the regulatory framework.     

Topologies of tourism enclaves

Abstract

Research on tourism enclaves has relied mainly on topographical understandings of the phenomenon. The focus has been on the ontic, that which is or exists instead of the relational qualities or properties of tourism enclaves. Topographical conceptions thus tend to simplify enclavic processes and attributes that are much more complex than meets the eye. In this article, we make the case for topological understandings of tourism enclaves, based on a relational ontology, as a complement. We thereby strive to offer more nuanced conceptions of tourism enclaves. We depart from Agamben’s political ontology to illustrate our claim. Seen topologically, tourism enclaves are not simply spaces marked-off from the norm, but rather constituents of the norm. Tourism enclaves need to be theorized as ‘prototypes’ or ‘laboratories’ of new subjectivities (ways of being, relating, and experiencing the world). The tourist thus emerges as a model figure of biopolitics in the contemporary, the norm rather than the exception. The tourist is not that which is abandoned by the sovereign in the manner of Agamben, but rather a free exilant, a subject that self-willingly chooses abandonment. We deploy topological concepts, like Agamben’s the ban, the camp, and state of exception. Such a conception, we argue, widens the ontological register or horizon of tourism theory.     

敦煌壁画色卡数字成像色彩管理应用研究

敦煌壁画高保真数字化采集是其数字保护工作的重要基础。依据前期研究及自主研制的敦煌壁画色卡,对敦煌壁画高保真复制品数字采集工作中图像的色彩管理性能进行了研究,并与标准色卡Macbeth ColorChecker的色彩管理效果进行了主观对比评价。研究结果表明,相同拍摄条件下,自主研制的敦煌壁画色卡的色彩管理主观视觉评价结果优于标准色卡,且对于不同类型照明光源和不同偏色设定条件,自主研制的敦煌壁画色卡可以对偏色图像颜色进行有效校正。     

Research design in digital luminance analysis

The prevalence of digital image analysis in studies spanning a wide range of fields makes the importance of set-up design decidedly important for repeatability and testing between studies, especially for those interested in the analysis of microscopic properties. This note outlines some important guidelines for setting up an image analysis protocol, and provides a case study based on the digital analysis of dental cement. Our method allowed for us (1) to get data through the conversion of optical luminance into numerical values and (2) to accurately measure image features through numerical analysis.     

False,cheap and degraded: when history,economy and environment collided at Cades Cove,Great Smoky Mountains National Park

Great Smoky Mountains National Park was created in 1934 after decades of popular activism. The National Park Service initially planned to restore wildness to all formerly settled lands through the process of secondary succession, but did not in a valley in the northwest corner of the park, Cades Cove. Transforming the 1200-ha agricultural setting into forest would have eliminated the visual charm highly prized by the tourists who had long come there. Additionally, experts promoted the preservation of Cades Cove's historic–cultural landscape because they falsely perceived the local culture to be a relic of the past. The Park Service acceded, but its commitment to historic preservation was tempered by a concern to minimize its expenses. Consequently, an agricultural permit system was adopted in 1945, which allowed modern farmers to operate on the historic landscape, keeping it open. This cheap method kept open the beautiful vistas of Cades Cove. Unfortunately, the agency's commitment to beauty and economy led to decades of ecological degradation, including water pollution and species extirpation. Only in the last two decades, has park management moved away from its focus on a low-cost, attractive landscape to embrace one that is also ecologically healthy, and thus more sustainable.     

大足石刻千手观音造像三维展示系统设计与实现

为了更好地发挥采集的千手观音造像海量数据在保护工程及后续研究中的作用,需要进一步对这些数据进行有效的管理、查询及展示。本研究基于Open GL设计并实现了大足石刻千手观音造像的文物三维展示系统。该系统通过多分辨率模型构建、三维模型数据简化及轨迹球旋转等关键技术的应用,实现了主要针对文物保护修复过程中所需的三维数据、工程图件、虚拟修复模型及相关资料等多源海量数据的显示浏览、交互量测及检索查询等功能。该系统不仅满足了文物保护修复工程的需求,而且为研究人员及游客详细了解文物现状提供了可能,具有较好的应用价值。     

中国自然保护区生态旅游开发研究刍议

本文从生态旅游的角度的出发,阐述了自然保护区生态旅游开发的意义,分析了自然保护区生态旅游资源的特点和开发限制因素,初步探讨了我国自然保护区生态旅游开发原则。     

新疆区域经济可持续发展途径的探讨

本文以新疆的产业结构、投资、科技、旅游为突破点,全面分析新疆尤其是北疆经济发展中存在的问题,并集中探讨了促进新疆经济可持续发展的途径。     

浅谈新疆旅游资源的开发

本文通过对新疆旅游资源的特点、开发条件的分析,提出了对策和措施。     

旅游功能系统:结构与要素分析

地理学将旅游作为人类活动的一种空间表现形式来研究,研究旅游活动的空间相互作用关系,是旅游地理学的重要内容。本文引入旅游功能系统这一概念,对其结构和要素进行了初步分析,并总结认为,旅游功能系统作为一种抽象描述旅游活动空间相互作用的概念,对旅游开发与规划具有指导意义。